Sharing Beatrice A Luna To Her Stepbrothers by Alexis Dee

70-Not So Innocent!

I have been in my room thinking about what happened between Helel and me last night. Now that it was slowly start- ing to sink in, I was beginning to understand what I lost last night. It wasn’t a problem for me, but my mother would be very angry when she found out about it.

However, it is not like I am ever going to tell her anything. She would never find out. Now that I have tasted freedom, the idea of answering someone’s burning questions doesn’t seem too desirable to me. I wanted to live freely now. It is not like I didn’t want to ever see my mother, but I wanted her to not control me too much.

“What happens if I don’t take the pills for too long?” I asked myself that question, holding the pill bottle in my hand and staring at it. I was resting in the bed, my arms stretched out and the bottle in the air.

“Would it be okay to let my wolf transition once?” I tried to convince myself to transition, but then I remembered how wrong it could go if he tracked my scent.

“No! I must not make that mistake,” I said to myself and sat up in bed. Without wasting another minute, I took the pill and calmed down.

Now that I have decided to not mess up my routine, I planned to meet Helel and see what he was up to. It really shocked me when I walked out of the room and found the mansion empty. I don’t know how long I have been in my room, but it certainly hasn’t been years.

“Now where the heck is everyone?” I sighed. Taking a quick peek inside the kitchen and finding no one there didn’t help my anxiety. I kept wandering around until my eyes trav-eled to the hallway and the light emitting from the room at the end.

walk in that direction and probably have a word with him. It could be anything at all.

eerily vi- brant. I walked closer and peered inside to see what was go-

heart sank in my chest when I found Gwen checking through the shelves.

side, and when I raised my voice to let her know I caught her, it

the shelf was itself

I w—as—,” she gulped loudly, taking little strides around

across my chest and making dead eye contact

panicked when she turned around to me and

book. You see! I got a book from him, and now I

like that?” I kept interrogating

thing was way off about her, and I wasn’t thinking like that, only because I was jealous of her. I just got

back to my room now,” she said, and she tried

you following me?” she asked suddenly, laugh- ing hysterically. Her actions were very random and suspicious. The calm and collective Gwen

and into her bedroom ahead of her.

for that, Beatrice!” she said, joining me in the room, but this time she wasn’t laughing or looking hys- terical. In fact, she looked anxious-or maybe a

as I pointed at the book resting near the